About Johann Konrad Rachor, I

Johann Konrad Rachor I. was the only Rachor family member who survived the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) [1]

Johann Konrad Rachor I. was born 1616, christened 18. June 1616 in the village of Zellhausen as son of Peter Rachore (Peter Rachor I.) of Zellhausen and Elsa Klauer of Seligenstadt. [2]

Before Johann Konrad Rachor I. the family name was written in different modes:

Ragor - Ragore - Raschorr - Rachore - Rachor

(see also the ancestors of Johann Konrad Rachor I.)

During the war he lived mostly in the city of Seligenstadt. [3]

21. January 1641 he was married in Seligenstadt to Marie Schaur of Weiskirchen [4] (today Weiskirchen is a district in the city of Rodgau) [5] Marie and possible children had been killed during the war.

25. November 1631 came King Gustav Adolf of Sweden [6] with his troops from Würzburg [7] and Aschaffenburg [8] to the area of Seligenstadt. Most people of Zellhausen emigrated to Seligenstadt, the rest had been killed by the swedish tropps. The troops also occupied Seligenstadt and a lot of people had been killed there. Many Catholic people (Seligenstadt and the area arround there was traditionally Catholic) fleet from the troops deep into the forest. In the year 1637 five familys came back to Zellhausen but only for a short time. In the baptism records of Seligenstadt you can read: "1638, 1639, 1640, 1641, 1642 nemo habitavit in Zellhausen ob bella davatista" (1638.....nobody lived in the by the war destroyed Zellhausen). [9]

After the war only following families came back to rebuild the destroyed village Zellhausen (1648/49):